Indira School of Communication inaugurated in Pune

MUMBAI: Veteran journalist Dileep Padgaonkar and Hyderabad Blues producer director Nagesh Kukunoor inaugurated Indira School of Communication on Monday in Pune.

Formed under the aegis of the Shree Chanakya Education Society’s Indira Group of Institutes, the institute is headed by Shashidhar Nanjundaiah, the erstwhile Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communications director.
 
 

The first batch comprises of about 75 students- or “trainees”, as the Institute prefers to call them.

According to an official release, Nanjundaiah states that the institute is looking at training the students in systematic research.
 
 

“The need for media educators to concentrate on enhancing the trainee’s learnability, application of concepts, ‘research thinking’, strong curricular input, infrastructure, and industry interface,” he offered.